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MD | From Colombia 🇨🇴 | Internal Medicine Resident, Norwalk Hospital/Yale University | GI enthusiast 💩 | My tweets are my own
May 17 10 tweets 4 min read
My patient has swallowed a foreign body.

What do I have to do?

We will review the ESGE 2016 and ASGE 2011 Guidelines

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1. Does my patient need imaging?

ASGE
- Biplane radiographs identify most true foreign objects,
steak bones, and free mediastinal or peritoneal air; however, fish or chicken bones, wood, plastic, glass, and thin metal objects are not readily seen
- CT scanning may be useful